Article on focus, writing, and productivity by Matt Gemmell. "We have limited time. Our workdays are only so long. Our evenings. Our lives. We spend too much of our time on trivia. Some distraction is healthy and necessary, but we all know that the scales have long since tipped."2013-08-04 productivity writing mac osx

"A song encoded at 320 kilobits/second is going to sound a whole lot better than a song with a 128kbps bitrate, right? Well, sure, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Bitrate stems from two different elements: bit depth and sample rate. Here’s where we can understand the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio."2013-07-31 audio

"Ideally, you should output audio from your computer at full volume, so as to get the highest resolution (bit depth) possible, and then have an analogue volume control as one of the last things in front of the speakers."2013-07-29 audio

"Command-Tab is great…if you only ever have one window open in each of your applications. With more than one window, though, it's a hassle to find the one you want. Witch solves that problem by taking you directly to the window you want to reach."2013-07-01 osx productivity

iOS 7 icons re-imagined by Louie Mantia. "While I don't employ the grid they created (and while I instead use the colors I chose), these feel interesting and balanced. Vibrant and bold, but not overbearing."2013-06-20 ios icons design

Upload your configuration to see how much memory MySQL needs. This tool calculates the theoretical peak memory usage which does not necessarily reflect real life usage of your database.2012-03-26 mysql

Module allows you to limit access to pages based, generate and manage password hashes, authenticate a user, generate and validate tokens for passwords resets. It also includes default pages to login, generate a password-reset token, email the token and set a new password after the token is validated.2012-02-26 web.py authentication

One of the nice aspects of web.py is that it exposes methods for the basic HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) and uses these methods to process each request from the client. This approach makes it amazingly easy to write a RESTful API.2012-02-25 web.py rest

Example creates a web page which communicates with the server (written in web.py) sending a JSON request object and receiving a JSON object as a response, which it uses to dynamically update the page.2012-02-24 web.py python jquery ajax

During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he recommended adding more armor to the places where there was no damage!2011-09-20 statistics econometrics

During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he recommended adding more armor to the places where there was no damage!2011-09-20 statistics econometrics

The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an introduction into the various methods available to aid in the rasterisation process; secondly, to provide a critical analysis of these methods against the needs of desktop applications; and finally, to relate this analysis to free software.2011-08-10 fonts

"It demonstrates the utter incoherence of being very concerned about a structural federal deficit but ruling out of consideration the policy that was largest single contributor to that deficit, namely the Bush-era tax cuts."2011-07-25 economics politics

A user just made available a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications in protest to the indictment of Aaron Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific publishing model in general.2011-07-21 academia

The goal here is to have a working ThinkVantage button to access the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery partition, as well as a fully functional Windows 7 and Debian Squeeze dual-boot.2011-01-17 debian linux thinkpad

An article in the Guardian in which Richard Stallman warns that the new cloud computing OS released by Google is a plan to push people into "careless computing."2010-12-23 stallman google privacy security

Journal aims to bridge the gap between econometric research and empirical practice by publishing theoretical and applied papers with direct relevance to empirical work in economics.2010-10-14 journal economics econometrics

On /etc/mailname in Debian: "This page has been created in the hope that it can be used to document which MTA does it which way, and to reach consensus so that all MTAs can converge."2008-03-02 debian ubuntu sysadmin

This is for installations that need to support both PHP4 and PHP5 on virtual hosts. It keeps the virtual hosts separated via suExec, and retains performance by using the Worker MPM for Apache2 and FastCgi for PHP.2008-02-24 ubuntu apache php

These icons are designed specifically for blogs and content management systems. The graphicPUSH blog icons come in two happening forms: a free version and a deluxe version.2008-02-18 icons design graphics

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).2008-02-15 ubuntu

There are at least two things a plugin framework should do: allow the user to drop plugins into some directory and have them loaded and register the functionality exposed by each plugin so as to use it either automatically or on demand2008-02-15 ruby plugin

Riposte is a blog engine written in Ruby and based on Ramaze and Sequel. Its simple, elegant architecture, minimalist featureset, and extensible codebase make it both fast and easy to customize.2008-02-13 blog ramaze ruby

"If it succeeds it will renew and, at worst, exacerbate the fragility, both domestic and international, that triggered the turmoil. If it fails, the US and, perhaps, much of the rest of the world could well suffer a prolonged period of economic weakness."2008-02-08 economics

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.2008-02-07 python syntax programming css

"Bush's 2009 Budget Will Top $3 Trillion. Bush took office with budget surpluses projected well into the future. But it's almost certain that when he exits, he'll leave behind deficits and debt that will sharply constrain his successor."2008-02-01 newspaper wsj politics

"Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a cash and share deal, a move designed to help both companies compete against industry leader Google."2008-02-01 newspaper wsj microsoft yahoo business

"The most recent version of Opera 9.50, is now claimed to have MathML support... But, even with Opera’s fairly sophisticated extensions to the basic technology of CSS..., there are many things which simply don’t work."2008-01-31 opera mathml

Will KHTML be the HTML rendering engine in KDE 4.0? Yes. We are currently working on polishing it to get it into shape after so much of the frameworks around it have changed.2008-01-28 kde konqueror khtml

With the SAGE Notebook anyone can create, collaborate on, and publish interactive worksheets. In a worksheet, one can write code using SAGE, Python, and other software included in SAGE.2008-01-28 mathematics sage python scipy

"There is roughly a 100 percent chance that we’re going to spend much of this year talking about the subprime mortgage crisis, the financial markets and the worsening economy. The only question is which narrative is going to prevail, the Greed Narrative2008-01-27 finance economics nytimes

That means, if you are a company and you have a computing task to be done...you can now start outsource your CPU cycles just as you previously outsourced other tasks. And that means that the computing landscape will get shaken up.2008-01-25 economics technology

Genshi is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for parsing, generating, and processing HTML, XML or other textual content for output generation on the web.2008-01-24 python xml web

"Therefore I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to include it, making sure it says "IE=7", even once IE8 ships. This seems to me to be the best way to show your support for an open, interoperable Web on the long term."2008-01-23 microsoft ie8 webstandards

My goal is to create a unified URI space within which static and dynamic content can transparently co-exist, with publicly-visible URIs for human-readable content (i.e., HTML pages) having a canonical form that omits file extensions or other content type2007-10-20 apache blosxom uri

This plugin will validate your web pages on the fly when published from Movable Type. The validation is done live against the W3C’s Markup Validation Service by sending your newly published page.2007-10-18 movabletype

Clicky gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and unrivaled per visitor level of detail.2007-06-06 webdesign web statistics rss

Low Morale is a series of animations portraying one man's struggle to cope with the soul-sapping, will-to-live draining, life-force mugging, morale crushing experiences of work. Any correlation between events shown and real-life have been personally rese2007-06-05 lowmorale humor

Low Morale is a series of animations portraying one man's struggle to cope with the soul-sapping, will-to-live draining, life-force mugging, morale crushing experiences of work. Any correlation between events shown and real-life have been personally rese2007-06-05 video music radiohead lowmorale

Citer is a literature management system. Its main focus in on small teams that want to manage their literature references. It can import and export BibTeX to allow an integration into your normal publication process.2007-02-07 ruby rails bibtex biblio

On a term, I can type \M-x using the ALT key, but in and Xterm it's not so, I have to hit ESC then x. The shell readline keys are also not working "right" with ALT. What will I have to do to get xterm to "do the right thing"?2006-03-25 linux issues